Robert Haas wrote:
> Yeah, I don't know. For my money, decorating the function definitions
> in place seems easier than having to maintain a separate export list,
> especially if it can be hidden under the carpet using the existing
> stupid macro tricks. But I am not a Windows expert.
I suppose we should to establish politics for this case. Because any who
see this and who have experience in Windows surprised by this. For windows
any DLL it is like plugins which must use strict API for communications and
resolving symbols. The situation is that in Postgres we have not API for
extensions in the Windows terms.
In future CMake will hide all this troubles in itself but if tell in truth
I don't like this situation when any extension has access to any non-static
symbols. However time to time we meet static function that we want to
reusing in our extension and today I know only one decision - copy-paste.
Without strict politics in this case we will be time to time meet new
persons who ask this or similar question.
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